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Raiders OT Donald Penn back at practice

With Raiders right tackle Brandon Parker struggling as a rookie, the Raiders could certainly use some help on the offensive line. That help might be coming in the form of the original starting right tackle this season.

Penn was designated to return from the IR on Tuesday and if he does return from the IR, that will shut the door on any return from others on the Raiders IR list including Marshawn Lynch.

It remains to be seen whether Penn will be with the Raiders next year, as he is a strong candidate to be a cap casualty, but if he can come back this year and help keep Derek Carr upright it would be a good thing for the team.

Penn struggled to adapt initially to his new role at left tackle this season and suffered a leg injury in the Week 4 win against the Browns that has kept him out of action until now. Penn is under contract for next year as well, and he’ll have to prove to the Raiders that he belongs on the field. Hopefully, he will have that chance soon

He did missed the first 2-3 weeks of camp, I think he first got on the field mid-August....that is when he learned about the change to RT.

I’m sure he heard from the grape vine about the possible switch earlier. Though he didn’t have a full healthy offseason to prepare for the right side.
He had to push hard to get back healthy enough to play, since we had NONODY to man that right side game #1.
It’s the tough OL mentality, like Miller throughout the year at LT, take it up and get your ass out there! Injured or not.
Maybe a full offseason of health and working on technique at RT, maybe he comes back looking good next year.
At worst we have some nice vet depth. We have the extra cap room for that luxury, so we’ll see.

Donald had a rough start to the season and everything was stacked against him; health, position change, getting older, personnal life I believe wasnt right… If we give him the chance maybe he can bounce back. That would be a big help this year but also in 2019.